May is Motorcycle Safety & Awareness month.
Many Texas riders across the state are getting involved with contacting their Mayor's office to request that thier Mayor sign and present a Proclamation for Motorcycle Safety & Awareness to the riders in thier community.
Their Goal is for news to reach as many drivers in the community as possible to once again make them aware motorcycles on the road... and to request that they drive safely to help save the lives of our brothers and sisters.
Making an appointment with the Mayor and City Council to pick up a Proclamation in person is very simple to set up. Once the appointment is set up all that needs to happen is for the riders in that city & community to SHOW UP. Most of the medias will run a story on the presentation of this proclamation so be sure to invite them as soon as the meeting date and time is set up. Then have a picture taken of your group with the Mayor so it can be placed in the local newspaper or on the local cable channel. Non-riders will more seriously consider the request to drive safe around motorcycles when they see that they'r elected officials are supporting that request. But it's up to us to set all this in motion.
This is also the first step in opening the door for Share the Road presentations to get signs place in cities across the state. TMRA has the best Share the Road program set up and will be happy to help set up the presentations. We will give you a contact email to discuss with Gary DuPriest on how to set up the Share the Road presentation for your City Counsil meeting.
The participation of each club, organization or group of independents in obtaining at least one proclamation (or more) WILL make a difference. To request information files and get the Proclamation going for your city, send an email to Butterfly :
sudsnbuttrfly@aol.comThe steps are very simple and worth our time. Educating the public on Motorcycle Safety & Awareness begins in our own backyards.
There will be a webpage set up very soon where a list of riders & cities currently setting up meetings will be posted & monitored daily to keep us all informed of the progress.
VIEW LAST YEAR's 2004 PROCLAMATIONS CAMPAIGN :
http://sudsandbutterfly.homestead.com/Proclamations2004.htmlThose of you who did such an OUTSTANDING job last year.. well you know what to do.. and it's time to do it again. Hope to hear from all of you again -very soon.
Ride Safe ~bttrfly
Member of TMRA2 & ABATE
Independent Supporter of Texas COC
http://sudsandbutterfly.homestead.com/
